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...with no passport, the Italian official had to concoct a new identity for him. With the Fat Man's aid, Lombino acquired the Social Security number of an unwitting high school driver's education instructor from Brooklyn, while a cooperative priest in Manhattan provided him with false baptism records...
...Missionaries know an Asia seldom seen by journalists," said Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss after this week's cover story on Christian workers overseas had taken him into isolated areas of Borneo and northern Thailand. He witnessed a baptism in a water-buffalo wallow and followed a troupe of Thai students who perform the Nativity for peasants. Eugene Morse and his brother Robert, both missionaries, led DeVoss to a mountain village for a Thanksgiving feast of pork-fried cabbage. And on one cold evening DeVoss accompanied a missionary into a thatch-roofed house and heard him address a dozen...
After one such visit, a clergyman last week reported Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa to be in "perfect" mental health and "full of enthusiasm." The priest, Henryk Jankowski of Gdansk, was allowed to meet with Walesa to arrange the baptism of his seventh child, Maria Victoria, born on Jan. 27. Walesa, who is reportedly being held in a government guest house near Warsaw, said that he expected to be freed in time for the March 7 christening ceremony. He also gave the priest a brief note saying that all previous appeals attributed to him had been "provocatively fabricated." Wrote Walesa...
...interned by the Polish military authorities reportedly in a guesthouse outside Warsaw. The photograph of his wife Danuta and their child, the first known to exist, was taken by a Solidarity photographer and smuggled out to the West. The archbishop of Wroclaw, Henryk Gulbinowicz, is trying to organize a baptism for the infant with the entire Walesa clan in attendance. As for whether the proud father would be allowed to participate by the hard-line government, the archbishop can offer only a prayer...
...closet god. At such public ceremonies as Kakure funerals, a Buddhist priest is always asked to officiate, but, says one of them, "these people make sure to give a prayer in secret to erase the effect of ours." The sect's leader, the Ojisama (Revered Uncle), conducts a baptism-like ceremony with water drawn from a site of 17th century martyrdom...